[Fedora-packaging] disttag doesn't work

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Mon Nov 23 13:59:39 UTC 2009


Paul Howarth wrote:
> That would be:
>
> %dist	.el5
>
> (the leading dot is needed)
>
> This macro is not defined in any existing EL-5 package, only in the
> Fedora buildsystem, so unless you're building your packages using
> mock, you'll need this local macro definition.

Installing buildsys-macros from

    http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/buildgroups/rhel5/i386/

is another alternative.  That also provides %rhel and %el5 (well,
%el$VERSION).

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